Most Most Likely To
with Abigail Osborn

Most Likely To…Appear on A YA Movie Soundtrack

Trick question: “Don’t Have the Heart” appeared on Netflix's excellent Ginny & Georgia, and it's not hard to understand why.

“Don’t Have The Heart” is one of Osborn’s most propulsive tracks, and it perfectly captures the rush of being young and doing hard things (like ending a relationship.) That pace plus its perfect, pop-banger melody make it an ideal fit for any serialized teen drama.

Most Likely To…Be Sung Around A Campfire

Campfire jams are one-of-one type songs. They need to feel familiar yet intimate. They’re designed to bring people together. Abigail thinks her recent release “I Don’t Need to Know How This Ends” belongs in this inimitable category; we agree. 

The song is spare yet rich, little more than a reverb-drenched acoustic guitar and Osborn’s powerful voice.It sounds like reaching out to someone over a massive expanse. That makes it a no-brainer for a campfire setting. “Hopefully everyone would be holding hands and singing it together,” Osborn says, “I kind of feel like I need to make that happen now.”

Most Likely To…Inspire Time Travel

Songs are time capsules. They literally capture the moment they were recorded, be it last week or fifty years ago. Modern songs that genuinely evoke a different era than the one that yield them feel like magic tricks enjoyed on repeat. 

There must be some kind of alchemy, then, at work in Abigail Osborn’s “Perfect Light” – it feels simultaneously ripped from the 1960s 4th Street folk scene and 2000s alt-country boom. When you listen to it, the fabric of space feels malleable.

Many songs want to be transportive. “Perfect LIght” actually is.

Most Likely To…Soundtrack Late Night Cry Sessions

When Abigail Osborn visited our office, she said that “Whenever I’m on stage, I say “Stop Looking at Me Like That” is perfect for crying in your car after the show, It has this orchestral moment that really just sends you away somewhere.”

That “somewhere” is straight into your feels. “Stop Looking At Me Like That” is unabashedly emotional in the best sense, a richly arranged tapestry of vocal harmonies and surprising chord changes.

Check them out for yourself ASAP.

Most Likely To…Brighten Someone’s Day

Abigail played a wild card and picked two selections here: “How Do I Say This” and “Ruin Your Night”

Regarding “How Do I Say This,” Osborn offers: “It’s a song about having a crush, which I don’t sing about too often, and having a crush can be fun…and then, “Ruin Your Night,” I think could potentially brighten someone’s day because it’s kind of tongue-in-cheek. I actually sound kind of rude on it, but it’s actually an empowering kind of rude, and I’d want other people to be able to tap into that too.”

Decide for yourself which brightens your day by streaming both:

Most Likely To…Be Covered By Another Artist

Great cover songs are a dime a dozen. Songs that are great for other artists to cover? Unicorns. They need to feature compelling stories that are open to interpretation and feature world-class melodies or hooks. Most artists don’t have a song that fits this bill.

Abigail Osborn does.

“Distract Me From My Own Life” features the kind of electro-pop production that made Charli XCX and The 1975 famous. It’s brazenly confessional. Most importantly, it builds to the sort of big climax that other musicians are dying to put their stamp on.

That said, there’s nothing like the original.

Most Likely To…Make You Laugh Out Loud

“You’ve got your number in my “Favorites” / I’m second on the list, right there behind your Mom” 

We laughed out loud the first time we heard the opening lines of “In Case of Emergency”; we’re still laughing, to be honest. This deep cut off Osborn’s 2023 release “how do you know how it feels right?” is self-effacing without being deprecating, funny without being corny. Relationships can become punchlines; they can also make you smile. “In Case of Emergency” understands this all too well. 

It’s in on the joke it's telling and laughing to heal.

Most Likely To…Age Like A Fine Wine

When we asked Abigail what song she was most excited to play from her new record five years from now, she definitely answered “yes.” Her choice: “Never Rains in London.”

"I hope that song ages like a fine wine…it’s a very lyrically heavy song, but every time I play it I realize ‘wow, I love this song, and I want to keep playing it forever'…Plus, I feel like I’m just starting to find the audience for it, and I think I’ll continue to as time goes on…and hopefully I’ll be excited to keep playing it 25 years from now. We’ll see."

See for yourself by streaming “Never Rains In London” now.